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Genesis 44:26
“We said, 'We can't go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man's face, unless our youngest brother is with us.”
Verse in context — Genesis 44
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It happened when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
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Our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food.
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We said, 'We can't go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man's face, unless our youngest brother is with us.
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Your servant, my father, said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons:
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and the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces;" and I haven't seen him since.
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The book of beginnings, describing creation, humanity’s fall, God’s promises, and the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph).
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